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Endeavour Award
The Endeavour Award, announced annually at OryCon in Portland, Oregon, is awarded to a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year. Pacific Northwest is home to many of the best science fiction and fantasy writers in North America. The award is dedicated to helping these science fiction and fantasy writers to produce the best literature in the field. Annual presentation of the Endeavour Award is in November at OryCon for books published during the previous year. Award history The Endeavour Award, named for HM Bark ''Endeavour'', the ship of Northwest explorer Captain James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and ..., was first presented in 1999. It was funded by a collaboration of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OryCon
Orycon is Portland, Oregon's annual science fiction/fantasy convention, held in November since 1979. Event history {, class="wikitable" width="100%" , - ! Event !! Dates !! Guests !! Attendance !! Notes , - , OryCon 0 , Nov 11, 1978 , No GOHs , align=~125 , The Symposium , - , OryCon , Nov 9-11, 1979 , John Varley (Pro), Steve Perry (TM) & Richard Geis (Fan) , align=525 , , - , OryCon '80 , Nov 14-16, 1980 , Fritz Leiber (Pro), Steve Perry (TM) & Elton Elliott (Fan) , align=1,010 , , - , OryCon '81 , Oct 30-Nov 1, 1981 , Frederik Pohl (Pro), Steve Fahnestalk (TM) & Kennedy Poyser (Fan) , align=965 , , - , OryCon '82 , Nov 12-14, 1982 , Robert Silverberg (Pro) & Jeff Frane (Fan) , align=979 , , - , OryCon 5 , Nov 11-13, 1983 , Octavia Butler (Pro), Terry Carr (TM) & Wilson Tucker (Fan) , align=937 , , - , OryCon '84 , Nov 9-11, 1984 , Reginald Bretnor (Pro) & Steve Perry (TM) , align=424 , "The Relaxicon" , - , OryCon '85 , Nov 8-10, 1985 , Somtow Suchar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest (born July 30, 1975) is an American novelist and blogger living in Seattle, Washington. Biography Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. She moved around regularly until college. In 1998 she graduated with a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, and in 2001 she left the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing. Priest lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee for twelve years and it is there she both set her Eden Moore series and wrote the first two books. In May 2012, she and her husband Aric Annear moved back to Tennessee from Seattle, Washington. In 2017, she returned to live in Seattle. Although Priest was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He has written novels, short fiction, screen plays for television, scripts for comic books, animation, newspaper copy, and magazine articles. Career Barnes wrote several episodes of ''The Outer Limits'' and ''Baywatch''. His " A Stitch In Time" episode of The Outer Limits won an Emmy Award. He also wrote the episode "Brief Candle" for ''Stargate SG-1'' and the '' Andromeda'' episode "The Sum of Its Parts". Barnes's first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette "The Locusts", was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee.Award nominees [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lion's Blood
''Lion's Blood'' is a 2002 alternate history novel by American writer Steven Barnes. The book won the 2003 Endeavour Award. It is followed by the sequel ''Zulu Heart''. The novel presents an alternate world where an Islamic Africa is the center of technological progress and learning while Europe remains largely tribal and backward. Throughout the novel, both the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic Hijri calendar are used. The title draws its name from Abu Ali's sacred knife, which is called Lion's Blood (or "Nasab Asad" in Arabic), which was carried into battle by members of Abu Ali's family for ten generations. It is made of "razor-sharp steel and bone…Its hilt was crafted of black rhino horn, bolted to the tang with six heavy steel rivets. Legend held that the steel blade was smelted from a fallen meteorite by Benin smiths, its white-hot length quenched in the living blood of a lion". Plot The story begins with Aidan O'Dere, a White European child growing up in a primit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Varley (author)
John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer. Biography Varley was born in Austin, Texas. He grew up in Fort Worth, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, graduated from Nederland High School—all in Texas—and went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship. He started as a physics major, switched to English, then left school before his 20th birthday and arrived in Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco just in time for the "Summer of Love" in 1967. There he worked at various unskilled jobs, depended on St. Anthony's Mission for meals, and panhandled outside the Cala Market on Stanyan Street (since closed) before deciding that writing had to be a better way to make a living. He was serendipitously present at Woodstock in 1969 when his car ran out of gas a half-mile away. He also has lived at various times in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, New York City, San Francisco again, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. Varley has writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Thunder (novel)
''Red Thunder'' is a 2003 science fiction novel by American writer John Varley. The novel is an homage to the juvenile science fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein. In 2004, ''Red Thunder'' won the Endeavour Award and was nominated for the Campbell Award. Varley has written three sequels, '' Red Lightning'' (2006), '' Rolling Thunder'' (2008) and '' Dark Lightning'' (2014). The events of the books in the series are set approximately twenty years apart. In an interview on the Republibot website in 2009 he mentioned that "Dark Lightning" would be the final book in the series. Synopsis The novel begins in Florida in the near future. China and the United States are sending competing first missions to Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ..., although it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Marley
Louise Marley is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Her fiction often features strong female characters, and explores themes of hope, humanity, and faith in the distant future. Prior to her career as a writer, Marley was an opera singer with the Seattle Opera, and several of her books feature musical themes. Marley also writes under the pseudonyms Cate Campbell, Toby Bishop, and most recently, Louisa Morgan. Bibliography *The Singers of Nevya series **''Sing the Light'' 1995 **''Sing the Warmth'' 1996 **''Receive the Gift'' 1997 **''Singer in the Snow '' 2005 *Other Novels **''The Terrorists of Irustan'' 1999 **''The Glass Harmonica'' 2000 (winner 2001 Endeavour Award) **''The Maquisarde'' 2002 **''The Child Goddess'' 2004 (winner 2005 Endeavour Award The Endeavour Award, announced annually at OryCon in Portland, Oregon, is awarded to a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Child Goddess
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun '' thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Oltion
Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is a science fiction author from Eugene, Oregon, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the '' Star Trek'' series. He is a member of the Wordos writers' group and also writes under the pen name "Ryan Hughes." Writing career His novels include '' Frame of Reference'' (1987), '' Abandon in Place'' (2000), '' The Getaway Special'' (2001), '' Paradise Passed'' (2004), and '' Anywhere but Here'' (2005). His work has been compiled in the collections, ''Love Songs of a Mad Scientist: The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume One'' (1993), ''Singing in the Rain, The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume Two'' (1998), and ''Twenty Questions'' (2003). He contributed to ''Isaac Asimov's Robot City'' series with the books ''Alliance'' and ''Humanity'' (both in 1990). His work can also be found in numerous anthologies, such as '' Quest to Riverworld'' (1993) and '' Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina'' (1995). As of November 2011, Olti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hobb
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born March 5, 1952), known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction. As Hobb, she is best known for her fantasy novels set in the ''Realm of the Elderlings'', which comprise the '' Farseer'', '' Liveship Traders'' and ''Tawny Man'' trilogies, the '' Rain Wild'' chronicles, and the '' Fitz and the Fool'' trilogy. Lindholm's writing includes the urban fantasy novel '' Wizard of the Pigeons'' and science fiction short stories, among other works. , her fiction has been translated into 22 languages and sold more than 4 million copies. Born in California, Lindholm grew up in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and married a mariner at age eighteen. The Alaskan wilderness and the ocean were prominent aspects of her life, influencing her writing. After an early career in short fiction, at age thirty Lindholm published her first novel while working as a waitress and raising children. The first work to brin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Mage
''Forest Mage'' is a 2006 fantasy novel by Robin Hobb, the second in her '' Soldier Son Trilogy''. Plot introduction The Gernian Cavalla Academy that has been established according to the King's wishes has suffered from the rivalry between the Old Lords and the King's New Lords. These are newly raised soldiers who won distinction in the push east and the conflicts with the plains people. However a new foe appears in the guise of the "Specks". The book is written in first person, in the perspective of the main character, Nevare Burvelle. Plot summary The story picks up where Shaman's Crossing left off. The Gernian Cavalla Academy is recovering from the devastating effects of Speck plague, a disease causing severe dysentery. The disease has run through the ranks of all the Academy (and civilian) population of Old Thares, killing many of the Old and New Noble soldier sons and leaving the Academy ranks severely depleted. Many who were fortunate enough to have survived the outbreak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silver Ship And The Sea
''The Silver Ship and the Sea'' is a young-adult science-fiction novel by Brenda Cooper, published in 2007. In 2008, it won the Endeavour Award, and was also one of Booklist's ''Adult Books for Young Adults Winners''. short book review ''The Silver Ship and the Sea'' is the first book in a series. The other two books are ''Reading the Wind'' Book review of ''Reading the Wind'', which compares it to ''The Silver Ship and the Sea''. Short review of ''Reading the Wind'' and ''Wings of Creation''. Brief review of ''Wings of Creation'' Critical response to ''The Silver Ship and the Sea'' was generally positive. Writing in Analog, Richard Foss criticized the pacing of the next book, "Reading the Wind". The book is about six genetically ''altered'' children who have been left on the planet ''Fremont'' after a war. Book review of ''The Silver Ship and the Sea''. Book review of ''The Silver Ship and the Sea''. Brief review of ''The Silver Ship and the Sea'' They were oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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